Quotes About Duty

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Service is the key to everything in life.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

when the staff was off duty and we Liars were alone on the island, the four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy's first aim was to defeat herself.

Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.

Nor am I concerned with duty. I'm concerned with the characters of various people whom we know, and how, things being as they are, things may be made a little better.

I am out here to work, mind, to hold this wretched country by force. I'm not a missionary or a Labour Member or a vague sentimental sympathetic literary man. I'm just a servant of the Government; it's the profession you wanted me to choose myself, and that's that. We're not pleasant in India, and we don't intend to be pleasant. We've something more important to do.

It is our duty to rebel. Not to destroy, but to build upon the grounds laid before us.

Bucky did the things I couldn't. I was the icon. I wore the flag… But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches… He was doing what he'd been trained to do… and he was highly trained.

We can't let a cop be killed because a cop is a symbol of law and order.

It's fine to enjoy familiar surroundings and desire familiar comforts—as long as we understand there may be times when we can't have them. Sometimes we're called to larger duties—like a soldier leaving home to go off to war. Second thoughts at such times are natural—but the Bible tells us, "You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3 NKJV).

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

succeeded in making a small, jerky motion. "I was only doing my job.

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

The truly educated man is the man who has learned the duty and responsibility of doing something useful, something helpful, something to make this old world of ours better and a happier place in which to live.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.

So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.